Thursday, July 15, 2010

Maybe it is time for a change

Within 2 days, I had 2 weekends off taken away from me by my company. What pisses me off is that it's to make things easier for other people, but they don't really seem to give a shit about me. I had actually made plans for both those weekends, which now have to be canceled. I understand one of the weekends. My truck was added a show. I'm not happy about it, but it is my truck, so I should be there. There are plenty of other people who could have worked the one weekend (not on my truck), but since I live in the NYC metro, it was easy to make me work the day and not incur any travel costs. When I mentioned this, I was told that if I needed those days off I should have taken vacation. When I was told this on Monday (in the middle of working the only professional sporting event in 3 days) I nearly walked off the show right then and there.

Year to Date, I've had 4 weekends completely off. I had fewer weeks off during the NASCAR season this year because we were going to have more time off over the summer. I was OK with that because of the time promised off over the summer to catch up. So far, I haven't made up any days "owed" to me by company policy. Currently for the year I've worked 21 more days than I should have. I was "even" in June, and will get 2 of those days back in July, barring any additional shows. I'll be Even in August (again, barring any additional shows being added) and will start adding more additional days each month starting in September. I project to be owed 35 days by the end of the year. I will have 2-3 days off in January, and none in February of 2011.

I don't think I can take the company at it's word that it'll get me the time back next summer, do you?

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